What version and is it free for download

[mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey)]

Eric wrote:
> markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> | Domino is "more or less" a database, and as such, you should make sure
> | that the distribution you use supports IBM's jfs, or default to ext2. 
> ext3
> | is horrible for database work.
> 
> Why is ext3 horrible for database work?  My experience with databases
> are minimal and I'm just curious.  Thanks.

Linux Gazette did some benchmarking of Linux file systems 
(http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html). Their tests concluded that 
ext3 is the slowest overall of the journaling file systems, and 
particularly bad at handling large files, which will happen a lot when 
you're using it to store a database.